Temporary cloth-roll support for looms



June 1 1926.

C. c. BOLEN TEMPCRARY CLOTH ROLL SUPPORT FOR LOOMS Filed Feb. 4,- 1926 TEMPORARY CLOTH ROLL SUPPORT FOR LOOMS \nvenToT. Charles C. Bolen byfeaw Patented June 1, 1926.

UNIT D STATES, PATENT men CHARLES CLYDE BOLEN, OF DANVILLE, VIRGINIA, ASSIGNOR TO DRAPER CORPORA- TION, OF HOPEDALE, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MAINE.

TEMPORARY CLOTH-ROLL SUPPORT FOR LOOMS.

Application filed February 4, 1926. Serial No. 85,859. 1

This invention has for its object to provide a simple and efficient means for temporarily supporting the roll of cloth at the completion of the weaving operation and after the cloth roll journals have been removed from the bearings in which they are supported during the weaving operation.

The object of'the invention is to provide such means so that the completed roll of cloth may be supported in a position where it will not be injured or soiled until it can be carried away from the weave roll.

When the weaving of a roll of cloth is completed, the roll is removed from the loom by lifting the cloth roll journals out from the bearings at the front of the loom. The space around a loom is universally very much restricted and unless the roll is immediately carried away from the weave room, which is usually not convenient, the operatives are likely to place the roll of clothusually on one end wherever space is available, as, for example, at the side of the weave room and against the wall. This is apt to soil "and injure the cloth. Usually the services of two men are required to handle the roll and carry it away and something must be done with the roll until such services are available.

In "the present invention suitable tempo rary supports are provided rigidly secured to the arch of the loom. The roll at the completion of the weaving operation is placed on these supports and is thus kept free from danger 0 being soiled or injured, in a position out Of the way and in a position from whence may be taken at any time andicarried from the weave room.

Since the invention is applicable to various types of looms and since the general construction of the loom is not; involved in the present invention, it is only necessary herein to illustrate and describe'the devices of the invention itself in connection with the loom arch to which these devices are rigidly secured. I

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a view in front elevation of the arch of a loom showing one of the harness frames and showing a preferred form of the present invention, together with a roll of cloth indicated in dotted lines.

Fig. 2 is a view'on a larger scale in side with a depending plate 8 adapted to seat against the front face of the web 4 of the loom arch and with a rearward projection plurality of temporary supporting 9 adapted to rest upon the top'of the flange 5 of the loom arch; This base is provided with means by which the bracket is rigidly secured to the loom arch. For that purpose a bolt 10 is provided passing through suitable apertures in the web 4: of the loom arch and the plate 8 of thebase. Avwasher 11.

and a nut 12 on the bolt clamp the parts rigidly together. .The base 7 of the bracket is provided with a forwardly projecting arm 13 presenting at the top a concave, substantially circular a-rcuate, seat 14: of suflicient size to receive the roll of cloth 15. The seat 14 is of substantial width and the arm is strengthened by a mid-flange 16. Each bracket may readily be, and is shown as, cast or'formed in asingle integral piece and is thus of comparatively inexpensive construction. also enables the brackets readily to be secured in a firm and rigid manner to exist ing looms without any change in the loom other than the boring of the necessary holes for the bolts 10 in the loom arch.

When the weaving operation has been completed, the operatives, after removing the cloth roll from the loom, simply lift it up and place it in the seats formed by the brackets where it is maintained out of the way, without occupying any additional The construction described floor space, and in a position Where it is pre- Vented from being soiled or injured.

Having thus described the invention, What is claimed as new, and desired to be secured 5 by Letters Patent, is

In a loom, a plurality of temporary supporting brackets for the cloth roll, eachcomprising a base, means for rigidly securing the base to the arch of the loom, and an arm projecting forwardly from the base and presenting at the top a concave seat to receive the cloth roll.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

CHAR-LES CLYDE BOLEN. 

